US Fanzine, edited by Richard E Geis; begun 1953; after 20 issues retitled Science Fiction Review for three issues in 1955; then stopped publishing. Geis resumed it with Psychotic #21 in 1967, then again changed the title to Science Fiction Review from #28. It was by this time printing more serious reviews and interviews, though its main feature remained Geis's amusing, rambling, personal comments. As Science Fiction Review it won a Hugo for Best Fanzine in 1969 and 1970; in its first incarnation Science Fiction Review ended with #43, March 1971, at which point it had a circulation, unusually high for a fanzine, of 1700. The editor also won seven Hugos as Best Fan Writer; six were for his work in TheAlien Critic, a later fanzine he began in 1973 and which itself, confusingly, underwent a change of title to Science Fiction Review in 1975. This change was a consequence of litigation threatened (most unreasonably, it would seem) by a US non-sf magazine called The Critic. [PN]

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We passed a couple of major milestones on 1st August: the SFE is now over 4.5 million words, of which John Clute’s own contribution has now exceeded 2 million. (For comparison, the 1993 second edition was 1.3 million words, and … Continue reading →

We’ve reached a couple of milestones recently. The SFE gallery of book covers now has more than 10,000 images: this one seemed appropriate for the 10,000th. Our series of slideshows of thematically linked covers has continued to grow, and Darren Nash of … Continue reading →

We’ve been talking for a while about new features to add to the SFE, and another one has gone live today: the Gallery, which collects together covers for sf books and links them back to SFE entries. To quote from … Continue reading →